So recently I purchased a GTX 970, due to being busy with exams I have only really just started to use it. Initially I was pretty underwhelmed with how it performed, The Witcher 3 suffers from audio stuttering and some lag on high settings when the Nvidia website says it should be able to run on ultra. Battlefield 4 suggests that I should run the game on medium settings and there is noticeable lag if I run higher than this. I purchased Metro last light in the Steam summer sale and I get 10-30fps with very high settings on and I cannot get more than 30fps on Cities Skylines on high settings.
I have run a benchmark test to see if I could explain any of this and the results are: my PC and Gaming PC with same card as me . The gaming PC in the results has a score that is more than double mine when I am using the same graphics card (I am not sure the difference in CPUs is here but I still would not expect such a large difference). I have a 550W power supply which I think should be enough.
I've looked in the Nvidia control panel and everything seems to be running correctly and all drivers are up to date. I have noticed that my wificard in my computer is blocking part of the fans on the graphics card. I have ordered a new usb wifi dongle so will be removing this from my case soon anyway, but could that be the source of the problem?
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£168.86 @ PC World Business)
Motherboard: ASRock H77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£87.00 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£68.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£48.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.80 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card (£262.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master HAF X ATX Full Tower Case (£129.96 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.40 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £849.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-14 15:08 BST+0100
I have run a benchmark test to see if I could explain any of this and the results are: my PC and Gaming PC with same card as me . The gaming PC in the results has a score that is more than double mine when I am using the same graphics card (I am not sure the difference in CPUs is here but I still would not expect such a large difference). I have a 550W power supply which I think should be enough.
I've looked in the Nvidia control panel and everything seems to be running correctly and all drivers are up to date. I have noticed that my wificard in my computer is blocking part of the fans on the graphics card. I have ordered a new usb wifi dongle so will be removing this from my case soon anyway, but could that be the source of the problem?
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£168.86 @ PC World Business)
Motherboard: ASRock H77M Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£87.00 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£68.40 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£48.00 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£37.80 @ Aria PC)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 4GB WINDFORCE 3X Video Card (£262.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Cooler Master HAF X ATX Full Tower Case (£129.96 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.40 @ CCL Computers)
Total: £849.40
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-14 15:08 BST+0100
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